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Early-career trans researchers reconsider their futures amid Trump cuts

December 9, 2025
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Early-career trans researchers reconsider their futures amid lost funding and fear

Trans researchers saw their funding, their work, their humanity targeted by the Trump administration: Part 6 of 'American Science, Shattered'

By Theresa Gaffney


STAT+ | Opinion: FDA drug center's new acting director fits a pattern of risky, internal contradictions among agency leadership

The FDA is tightening evidence demands for some products while loosening them for others. Expert says growing contradictions reflect ideology, not science.

By Paul Knoepfler


STAT+ | J&J's two-drug combo blocked tumors in advanced multiple myeloma

ASH's 2025 meeting ended with strong multiple myeloma data from J&J, a new treatment for a rare disorder, and strains on a sickle-cell data program.

By Adam Feuerstein, Angus Chen, Damian Garde, and Katherine MacPhail



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Opinion: It's past time to update the rules intended to slow the FDA's revolving door

Current post-employment rules fail to prevent the appearance (and too often the reality) of regulatory capture, especially with the FDA.

By Lee Rosebush and Marc Wagner


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